Subject: Re: spam mail
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Chika <madoka@argonet.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/19/2001 11:16:20
On 19 Jun, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:23:13PM +0100, Chris Cowdery wrote:
> > 
> > Why not just set up your e-mail client such that the e-mail address
> > that gets inserted into your sent messages is of the form
> > chris@NOSPAM.cowdery.demon.co.uk. Users of http://www.slashdot.org are
> > very good at that.

> Bad idea.  This will get you filtered out by people who check for real
> addresses when mail comes in. Most spammers dont use real sender
> addresses, and if you do this, you can't be distinguished.

Besides which, the use of the word "NOSPAM" and similar are recognised by
the more intelligent harvesters. If you really have to mung your address,
it is better to be more inventive, or forget it.

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